From the edge: vintage accessories, Indashio’s <i>Klub Kids</i>, and an online tailor’s shop

From the edge: vintage accessories, Indashio’s Klub Kids, and an online tailor’s shop

December 9, 2010/11.25

Above Indashio shows its spring–summer 2011 collection on Grand Cayman Island, with a little help from Selita Ebanks. An online fashion accessories’ boutique, Parker & Blake, features one-of-a-kind vintage accessories, including earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, handbags and belts, with prices beginning at US$18. Parker & Blake says its targets are ‘celebrity stylists, fashion bloggers, fashion […]

ONA Spa goes back to (old) school

December 5, 2010/9.32

Above ONA West Hollywood spa’s treatment and waiting rooms. Below left Babor Hy-Ol. Bottom left Babor HSR Lifting Cream Rich. Bottom right Babor HSR Platinum cream. As you’ve seen on Lucire’s pages, classics are back, but with a modern twist. This holds true for the facial. Though a myriad of technical breakthroughs and curiosities have […]

George W. Bush promotes Decision Points at Facebook

November 30, 2010/11.43

He never had much of a chance to talk about it during his administration, but here is former US president, George W. Bush, championing corporate social responsibility as he promotes his book, Decision Points. We also never thought we would have in the same sentence: Bush, Facebook and California, but here we are: as part […]

Susan Stafford: a life well spent

November 23, 2010/0.23

From top Kato Kaelin with Pat and James van Patten. Billy Davis, Susan Stafford and Marilyn McCoo. Sean Kanan and Michele Vega. If you are a classic TV enthusiast or a person of a certain age, you will remember ’80s juggernaut game show Wheel of Fortune. Before Vanna White spent the decade turning letters with […]

Jake Gyllenhaal galore: Source Code UK trailer, Love and Other Drugs Australian trailer released

November 22, 2010/23.53

With all the talk going on about Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in Love and Other Drugs, it’s easy to overlook Source Code, another ﬁlm starring the American actor. What caught our eye is the director—Duncan Jones—who gave us the cult science ﬁction movie, Moon. Gyllenhaal plays a decorated soldier, Capt Colter Stevens, who […]

Eco-luxe, conjured in the Bay, reﬁned in Portland

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Former fashion model and budding designer, Courtney Leonard, has no hidden agenda when it comes to conveying her love for luxury goods and the environment. The Oregon native, who has made her way back to the inspiring grounds of her childhood, creates what she calls ‘eco-luxe’ products, from accessories and dresses to one-of-a-kind leather handbags […]

Playboy launches Play It scents for women into Australian market

November 21, 2010/11.27

Playboy has successfully managed brand extensions for decades, be they into other editions or into clothing. Two years ago, the company signed a deal with Coty to produce a men’s fragrance. It’s now releasing a women’s fragrance—but how do you link a very masculine brand to a female market? Cleverly, the marketers have seized […]

Lanvin for H&M’s NYC couture show and Alexandra Owen lead our fashion coverage

November 19, 2010/13.21

Dan Lecca There are two great fashion stories in the features’ part of the Lucire site today, each on top labels in their respective countries. Above are photographs, by Dan Lecca for Hennes & Mauritz, of the Lanvin Loves H&M haute couture show at the Pierre Hotel in New York on Thursday night. The […]

Candace Bushnell, Kathryn Eisman and Jeanine Pirro join Ultimate Engagement Ring judging panel

November 17, 2010/17.39

Michael Hill, the jeweller behind the Ultimate Engagement Ring—Search for the World’s Best Couple competition with a 22½ ct princess-cut diamond ring as ﬁrst prize, has announced his judging panel. Alongside Hill, Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, reporter and How to Tell a Man by His Shoes author Kathryn Eisman and television […]

Rolex honours ﬁve Young Laureates who better our world

November 13, 2010/18.06

Marc Latzel All successful organizations and countries involve their young people in decision-making. Rolex, recognizing that the future lies in youth, has started its Young Laureates Programme, and its ﬁve recipients were announced recently at the École Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne. The Programme gives young people the ﬁnancial support and recognition to tackle the […]